2018 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Tue, 1 May 2018 15:56:09 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL, REUSE: "Uijeongbu city [South Korea] demands defense ministry examine soil contamination at ex-US military base site"
 
Uijeongbu city demands defense ministry examine soil contamination at ex-US military base site

Korea Herald
April 17, 2018


The city government of Uijeongbu, north of Seoul, has demanded the defense ministry conduct an examination into soil contamination at a former US military base site in the city, officials said Tuesday.

The Uijeongbu city government bought the former Camp Sears site from the defense ministry in 2012 after the land was returned to the ministry in 2007 under a base consolidation and relocation plan, known as the Land Partnership Program.

Nine oil tanks had existed on the base to supply oil to other American bases north of Seoul. When the site was returned, most of the land was contaminated, with total petroleum hydrocarbon levels up to 73 times the maximum permissible levels.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20180417000760

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